Land and Shade

5/16/2017

**Not far from losing the birthplace of human civilisation.** Not everybody's pick of the year. Everybody does not know this film even exist. This is the director's ambitious project, to depict on the screen the world he had come from. So it is much an awareness film about struggling rural society. Usually critics favour this kind of film. But not to be watched for the entertainment purpose. Surely you will be bored to death. This is a challenging film to watch that tests your patience. Even I had a slight trouble finish watching it, but at the end I'm satisfied for it is what it is. Average film's runtime, so if you have been focused since the beginning, particularly without any interference, then that's good. You will get the characters and their condition, which is most important

11/21/2021

This film is much deeper than it appears to be. On the surface, it looks like a struggling poor family in a rural setting. Look again. On one level it is a family with their own set of relational problems. Like Tolstoy said, "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." But this particular unhappy family is set against the socio-economic background of an impersonal agri-business. The agri-business, not only complicates their unhappiness, but also, slowly murders it's victims. It is not a huge, impossible leap of imagination to cast this story onto the laborers of Amazon or Uber - workers that slave for hours without bathroom breaks for ultra-rich, off-screen masters. The parallel is painfully present in this film. Never mind the intentional long sh

11/23/2021

This film is much deeper than it appears to be. On the surface, it looks like a struggling poor family in a rural setting. Look again. On one level it is a family with their own set of relational problems. Like Tolstoy said, "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." This particular unhappy family is set against the socio-economic background of an impersonal agri-business. The agri-business, not only complicates their unhappiness, but also, slowly murders it's victims. It is not a huge, impossible leap of imagination to cast this story onto the laborers of Amazon or Uber - workers that slave for hours without bathroom breaks for ultra-rich, off-screen masters. The parallel is painfully present in this film. Never mind the beautiful photography o